Hi,
we dug a little deeper since our Anonymous Seamail Service runs on a Havenco server. http://www.katzglobal.com/hosting/offshore_email.html ----------------------------------------------------- Below is a reply to part of a conversation I had with PMMIT and it is reprinted below with permission from PMMIT. http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5059676.html Here are a few comments and observations concerning the above article. Notice the headline refers to "haven for questionable sites" -- this is perjorative from the start, and telegraphs the article's slant. Following that are some statements which are very unlikely to be true, such as HavenCo having only six customers left. If typical would mean that the whole operation is subsisting on under $10k a month. No possible way. They still have employees. They still have microwave links up. They have power and supplies to the base. They added more support staff after Lackey left. They now have 24 hour telephone hotline support which they never had before. They recently installed a whole bunch of new network hardware. Who the hell is paying for all of this? The Bates family, hoping to recoup the cost from half a dozen customers? Riiight. Nor have we heard so much as a whisper about a price increase, nor had them badger us in any way on those few occasions when we have been a little tardy in paying our bill. It seems to me that a company in dire financial straits could hardly fail to do that. Also, note that HavenCo recently had to deal with a bout of what their technical people (Ryan Lackey's successors) believed was intentional jamming of their shore-to-ship microwave transmitters. They solved this by implementing some type of new technology that is so far rarely used, but which appears to have obviated most of the problems. The only hint that I got that the company might be in some financial distress would be that they mentioned in an update that they could not fully and completely eliminate all single points of failure in their network until all customers brought their accounts current and so gave them the cash to buy the necessary redundant equipment. After the 10 day outage we had back in late March/April I am sure they DID in fact lose some customers, or have some pay up late. However they also comped everybody a free month -- again, a company at death's door would hardly do that. Still there have got to be customers out there wondering if they are indeed going to stay in business long term. Hence, the timely release of the above article into the press. This article reminds me of some of the items that I have seen written about offshore banks and online gambling outfits after they became targeted for takedown. My interpretation of it is that the jamming effort having failed, and still wanting to drive HavenCo out of business, the establishment is now planting stories in the press (especially techie oriented press) that are intended to scare away existing or potential customers by implying that: 1) HavenCo is hosting unsavory businesses, which might get the whole thing shut down somehow due to legal action or otherwise. 2) HavenCo is run by dishonest people, who owe a former employee over $220 grand and refuse to pay him. 3) The whole operation is on its last legs, having already "failed". 4) The Bates family really doesn't care at all about the privacy being offered, and will compromise it under pressure at any time. 5) A disgruntled ex-employee is presented as the credible "inside source" for all of this (even though I haven't heard from Ryan Lackey or even heard his name in well over a year). The fact that a piece of cob web in the domain registry database still lists him is unconvincingly offered at the end to try to enhance his credibility. 6) The company's very plausible statements in rebuttal are made to sound like the false bravado used to cover a defeat or a forced retreat. This is all obviously calculated to make existing customers nervous and potential customers skittish, thus contributing to the demise of the company on economic grounds. Very well written in terms of spin by the article's author or editor. And just like with any other such story, if you are not in a position to know what's REALLY going on with the subject matter you have no way to see through the spin or counter the fears which it is intended to provoke. That said, it is clear from both the jamming attempts and the drum beats now being sounded in the press that HavenCo and Sealand are in the crosshairs. They are a nuisance which the establishment obviously intends to eliminate. Freedom and hope for the common man are very dangerous to the powers that be. It remains to be seen whether HavenCo will be able and willing to fight back. My expectation is that they will. -------------------------------------------------- They have also spoken to with Michael Bates (aka Crown Prince Michael of Sealand)and he has assured us that (Havenco) "We are here to stay." =========================================== Gordon H. www.katzglobal.com Anonymous Hosting(tm) Solutions --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
